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姹

chà

Character Traditional 奼

What 姹 means

1. literarybeautiful

Words starting with 姹

• 姹女chà nǚbeautiful girl; mercury
• 姹紫嫣红chà zǐ yān hónglit. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom); fig. beautiful flowers

Characters built on 宅

These share the phonetic component 宅 (zhái), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 诧chàto be surprised; to be astonished
• 咤zhàused in 叱咤

Sounds the same

Read chà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 差different; wrong; mistaken; to fall short; to lack
• 刹Buddhist monastery, temple or shrine (abbr. for 刹多罗
• 岔fork in road; bifurcation; branch in road, river, mountain range etc
• 诧to be surprised; to be astonished
• 杈branches of a tree; fork of a tree
• 叉used in 劈叉; used in 分叉
• 汊branching stream
• 侘boast; despondent
• 衩slit on either side of robe